Re: [PATCH 0/12] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v7

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 17:07:53 EST


On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:47 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I ran testing with artificial
> bdi_work allocation failures to verify the oom path

I bet you didn't use lib/fault-inject.c :(

For tricky pieces of core kernel like this, there's a good case for
including and permanently maintaining fault injection testing
capabilities.

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